I've had OO for at least 4 years and really love it. It's far better in concept than Microsoft's Office programs like Word and Excel. And it's free! Keep up the great work! Unfortunately, my OO program continually crashes about every 30 - 45 seconds. Yes, it Recovers the work I was on when it crashed, but these constant crashes are very annoying. I can hardly enter anything before it crashes again and again. Can you work on this problem for which I see numerous posts and solutions here. I've tried them all and nothing works to stop these crashes. I have Windows 7 Home Premium, plenty of RAM, and lots of disk space on my new HP Pavilion PC. I am positive that this crashing problem comes from my use of Windows 7 - it didn't occur as often when I used Windows XP. If you have a newer release/update, please send me an email - I will greatly appreciate it.

Try /Tools /Options /OpenOffice.org /On;line Update and disable "Check for updates automatically". Then restart OpenOffice completely, including the Quickstarter - easiest way is to power down your computer after closing open programs then start up again.

Have you any virus checker or running backup system (such as Comodo) which touches open OpenOffice files?

I don't have Comodo, I use Norton. I didn't Delete my User Profile since changing the "Check for updates automatically" (I unchecked it - disabled it) per your EXCELLENT recommendation seems to Solve my Problem!!!! Now that I no longer use your Auto Update feature, I use CNET.com to inform me of your available updates.

Note that OpenOffice does not update at short intervals. As AOO 3.4.1 has just released the next revision is likely to be some months away, probably (speculation) not before year end. Check in to the Forum from time to time - a new release is announced by a "sticky" global announcement on every sub-forum. I understand that on the latest AOO versions the Update crash problem may have been fixed.

Yes, this shows that the problem is still there, somewhere. I confirm I was using v4.1.3, it's not a typo.I found useful to add the information here, as this post is the only one that comes in Google when searching for "OOO constantly crashes" or similar searches, hope it can be useful to others Yes I upgraded anyway to v4.1.5.Denis

BTW, I just checked, the problem is still there with v4.1.5 !I don't know if this may explain the problem, when manually checking for updates it says "Erreur de lecture des données depuis Internet. Erreur du serveur: ." which means "Error reading data from Internet. Server error: ."

OpenOffice 4.1.6 and LibreOffice 6.0.6.2 on Windows 7 Pro & UltimateIf you believe your problem has been resolved, please go to your first post in this topic, click the Edit button and add [Solved] to the beginning of the Subject line.